In the early 1990s, members of the Origami Tanteidan Convention in Japan began a unique competition devoted to insects and other arthropodsas, over a period of years, artists attempted to one-up each other,successively adding legs, antennae, wings, and more. Each year, the modelsbecame increasingly complex, as origami enthusiasts from around the worldjoined the fray. Beetles became winged beetles. Winged beetles becamewinged spotted beetles. And so on. Models went from 30 or 40 steps tohundreds of steps. As a result, origami artists developed a range of designtechniques that ultimately changed the entire art of origami folding. Bugscontinue today to be a favorite subject for origami artists, and this book bothdescribes the original challenges that stretched the art and also includes 12original contemporary bugs (including one master-level project) designed bysome of the most talented origami artists today from around the world, withdetailed step-by-step instructions to make them